Monday

"Humanity is as a man who lives and learns for ever"

Education as the development of faculties through knowledge: Education is not merely the accumulation of knowledge or learning, but the development of faculties through knowledge. It is curious that we should need to insist on this, because the word "to know" originally meant "to be able."

Education as development of the whole person: Since man has powers of mind, powers of body, and powers of soul, and all in need of development, if the man is to be perfected, the education of the man as citizen must develop the whole man-intellectually, physically, and morally.

Let us alter those words " art" and "poetry" into "teaching" and "education," and the passage still states a great truth. Education must awaken the mind of man, it must discipline his mind, it must fill his mind and heart with all the spiritual and intellectual treasures which the past has accumulated, and it must inspire him to the finer issues of life.

Education for solidarity and association : We are born with potentialities, faculties that have been developed in the race but are latent in the individual, but which can be called forth in a few short days or weeks or years in the individual. How wonderful has been the acquisition of these powers!